Word: fingernail
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...There is not one person in all Germany," he cried, "from whom even one fingernail has been chopped. It is true that some Storm Troopers have terribly beaten up this one or that one, but you must remember the terrible bitterness that has prevailed among men who have been persecuted for ten years. . . . Travelers from elsewhere coming here this summer will enjoy the fullest freedom and witness a nation proud of its resurrection...
...through the central police station doorway, shouldered him quarterway through a cell door, pried him out, let him sit on a bench. In the morning they opened both the courtroom's double doors to arraign him before Judge Westropp where he pleaded not guilty. They sent him away. Fingernail...
...West Point, Ga., charged with the murder of Charlene Johnson by stabbing her in the leg artery with a penknife. Negro Joe Beasley was freed when he showed Judge Novatus L. Barker a broken fingernail. Playing the piano at a dance, Joe Beasley had broken the nail, taken out the penknife between dances to pare it. Pushed in the crowd. Charlene Johnson had bumped into the knife, stabbed herself...
...Picasso had designed for him. He did amazing footwork to a dozen complicated rhythms. He conversed with his castanets, brutally, insolently, insinuatingly. He swelled out his chest and shot meaningful glances at his partners, Carmela and Carmita. He clucked with his tongue, sniffed with his nose, even snapped a fingernail accompaniment to one of his dances...
...girls with him repeated nearly everything they did. Escudero strutted about like a cock, clicking his heels and tapping his toes through dances loosely designed. His conversational castanet-playing impressed Ameri cans most. He barked with them brutally, whispered insinuatingly. For the end of one dance he snapped a fingernail accompaniment...